Chapter 71 Dalaran

Because their destination was the same, Garin and Drake merged their teams and headed to Dalaran together.

Garin and Drake hit it off immediately. Drake told Garin about his experiences sailing and adventuring at sea to fight pirates with his father. Garin echoed that when he was a child, he looked out at the sea on the wall of Stromgarde and had an ideal: I am the man who will become the King of the Sea, and I will look for the treasure left by the Pirate King.

This ideal was actually highly recognized by Drake. When he was a child, he asked his father about the pirates' treasure map and wanted to go out to sea to search for treasure.

Sure enough, every boy has a dream of adventure and treasure hunting in his heart.

Drake also asked Garin about the process of fighting the trolls. Garin made full use of his eloquence and described the ups and downs of the battle process, which made the young Drake excited and wanted to take part in the battle himself.

In the carriage at the back with a magic constant temperature setting, Drake's mother and younger sister were also looking at the front of the team. The two young men were chatting and laughing, playing and joking, and the Queen of Kul Tiras smiled knowingly.

Her eldest son had endured too much. His husband had high hopes for him. He had been brought up by his side since he was young and taught him by example, hoping that he would become an excellent king in the future and lead the people of Kul Tiras to glory.

There is so much pressure on Drake. I haven't seen him so relaxed and happy in a long time.

"Jaina, Jaina, my dear, mommy hopes that you will be happy all your life, never have to endure any pain, and be with your beloved forever!"

The queen hugged her little daughter and murmured.

The team's area of ​​dozens of kilometers is within the radiation range of Dalaran and is a very safe area.

In the Hillsbrad Foothills region, the one with the greatest influence is not the most powerful Kingdom of Lordaeron, nor the closest Kingdom of Alterac, but the mage kingdom of Dalaran.

The Hillsbrad region is not the core of Lordaeron's rule. Except for some important towns and large farms, everyone here belongs to the small nobles of Lordaeron. The Kingdom of Alterac is a small country, so if you offend them, you offend them. There is no need to panic.

But if you act recklessly near Dalaran and accidentally offend a mage, you'd be afraid of a basin-sized fireball being thrown at you, leaving nothing behind.

During the past two days, Garin camped in the wild with the Proudmoore family, stayed in an inn and had dinner together. He and Drake have become close friends, and he also played with the little girl Jaina, enjoying the rare leisure time.

During this time, Garin took the time to introduce Gandalf to their family, a ninth-level wizard who is confident that he will break through to the legendary level in the next few years.

At the same time, it was agreed that no matter what little Jaina's magical talent was, Gandalf was willing to accept her as an apprentice and teach her carefully, which touched Drake very much.

Here we have to mention the attitude of the top leaders of various countries towards magic. The kings do not trust magic. This stems from Emperor Soladin's aversion to and suppression of magic, which was later continued by the ruling classes of various countries.

Because this is arcane knowledge passed down by other races, the magical talent of individual humans is average, and only a rare few can reach the pinnacle. The combination of soldiers and priests in the armies of various countries is the mainstream.

Only royal daughters and minor nobles would choose to try the path of arcane magic when the paths of warrior and priest were unsuccessful.

So when Garin told Solas that he was a mage and his legs were not broken, it was Solas' true love.

The team stopped and walked along the way. Shortly after passing Blaze Farm, Garin and Drake, who were walking in front of the team, saw a purple spire rising above the woods in the distance.

At this moment, Dalaran is still the original Dalaran built thousands of years ago. It has not been rebuilt. It is located on an island called Cross in Lake Lordamere northwest of Hillsbrad.

As the team slowly approached, the full picture of Dalaran appeared before everyone.

Unlike the rugged and majestic stone walls and houses of Stromgarde, the purple buildings of Dalaran are more gorgeous and mysterious. The towering mage towers have surpassed the height of the royal castle of Stromgarde.

This is Dalaran, the magical capital known as the City of a Thousand Towers.

Even Garin, who had seen many skyscrapers in his previous life, had to admit that these wizard spires were full of magical colors and were indeed interesting.

The team continued to move forward. Galen and Drake both sent guards holding the royal emblems of the two countries to go ahead to the dock to arrange the ship for the team to Dalaran.

After entering Dalaran, the two teams separated. As royal families, they must have their own royal industries in Dalaran, and they have their own things to deal with, and they will have the opportunity to reunite in the future.

"Your Highness, shall we deliver the goods to our own shop tomorrow?" Carlocar asked when he saw Drake and the others leaving.

"No need. Transport all the goods to the family shop, and move all the goods in my own shop to the family shop as well." The Trollbane royal family has its own shop industry in Dalaran, mainly engaged in the sale of leather, finished leather armor, arrows and other weapons. Otherwise, how can we say that Stromgarde is a kingdom of warriors and the goods are so unique.

"Your Highness? What is this?"

Varokal didn't understand. The quality of the goods brought this time was quite good. After all, all the spider populations in the Helm's Deep Basin had been cleared out. The raw materials of thousands of giant spiders could be sold, which was definitely a huge sum of money. Why should they be put in the royal shop? The profits would have to be shared with Garin's father, Solas, and could not all go into Garin's private treasury.

"Okay, I have my own plans. Go to the store first to inform Fland that we have arrived, and then lead the guards to sort out the goods in the store."

Carlocar did not ask any more questions and took the order to go to the shop. His Royal Highness the Prince wanted to tell himself that he would definitely explain, and if there was no explanation, he should not ask any more questions. This was the self-cultivation of a top confidant.

Andold Farand, one of the business managers arranged by Garen to run a shop in Dalaran, was Harmon Carven's original competitor in Stromgarde and also a famous leatherworker. Garen discovered that the two had different talents in business, so Harmon later became the leader of the caravan, and Farand was arranged to work in the permanent shop in Dalaran, selling and making leather armor.

The raptor skin from the Arathi Highlands is famous for its high quality in the human kingdom, followed by the crocodile skin from the wetlands. However, because the wetland crocodiles are not as easy to kill as the highland raptors and fewer people go there, the output is not as high as that of the raptor skin.

He sent Varokal and the guards away to the shop, leaving only Gandalf and Herni behind Galen.

This was his first time in Dalaran. In his previous life, Galen first set foot on the land of Dalaran in the Crystalsong Forest in Northrend in the Arctic. At that time, Dalaran had been rebuilt for the third time and had become a city that could reach the sky.

When talking about Dalaran at this point in time, we have to start from the time when the alliance between humans and high elves defeated the forest trolls 2,700 years ago. One of the conditions for helping the high elves defeat the trolls was that the elves taught humans magic.

The high elf king at that time was the newly appointed Anasterian Sunstrider, who had no choice but to agree to this request and selected 100 human apprentices to teach magic. This old guy is still in power now, and Kael'thas has been a prince for hundreds of years.

After the victory of the war, the mages who had only gained some superficial knowledge of the arcane continued to recruit disciples and study magic in Stromgarde, hoping to go further on the path of the arcane. However, due to insufficient knowledge, they had to rely on themselves to explore, and accidents often happened. There would be an explosion here today and another explosion there tomorrow.

Most of the high-ranking officials of the empire were warriors who did not trust the power of magic. As a last resort, out of suspicion and because the mages did not want to harm civilians, they left the city and established Dalaran on Cross Island, one of the magic network nodes in Azeroth.

It has only been six or seven years since Dalaran was first destroyed by the red dragon driven by the Blackrock orcs. As for why people continue to run shops in Dalaran, aren't they afraid of losing all their money if it is destroyed?

It doesn't exist. Garen kept the shop contract of Dalaran in the royal palace of Stromgarde. He only needed to evacuate the people before Dalaran was destroyed and go back after it was rebuilt. The mages of Kirin Tor dared to default on ordinary people's debts. How could he dare to take the original industries of the royal families of various countries? He probably didn't want to stay in the human society anymore.

Moreover, Galen also has an ambition to let Gandalf join Dalaran, so that he may be able to control the Kirin Tor Council, the leadership of Dalaran, in the future.

In the previous life, after Dalaran took off, it became a neutral city, but this is not the case in this life.

As the saying goes, the head follows the butt. In this life, Garin is in the human camp, and everything he does must be considered from this standpoint. Humans are his base, and he does not allow any division.

Whoever causes division will be attacked!